Whatever happened to the Chevrolet Geo Metro?

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Back when gas skyrocketed to $1.25/gal. people railed and Chevrolet introduced the Geo Metro. A 3 cylinder lil pup car that got 55mpg and was good for only 100,000 but also only sold for about $8,000. With gas prices currently down but most likely going up again sometime why does Detroit insist on making cars that only get 32 - 40mpg yet do all they can to convince us that is good mileage? Even the Metro got over 10mpg more than this ugly ass Smart Car. Hell, even my Hyundai Elantra gets better than the Smart Car so it doesn't sound so smart to buy that car.
 
A - the metro has NONE of the safety features of new vehicles. Run a Metro into a Smart Car head on, the Smart driver will walk away, the Metro driver will be seriously injured, maybe killed.
B - people didn't want them anymore. The last year they were built, thousands were sold off cheap as fleet cars because they were sitting in dealer lots. At the same time, there were several thousand names on waiting lists for the Dodge Durango.

It was a car for it's time, but it's time ran out, and the ones left on the road are death traps.
 
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